Monday, February 29, 2016

Trello

Trello is the free, flexible, and visual way to organize anything with anyone.

Trello works in real-time, real fast. When somebody moves a card, it moves on your board instantly, no matter what device you use. You can keep your tab open all day and never have to refresh. Plus, Trello opens and loads so fast you won’t even notice.

Wednesday, February 17, 2016

EDpuzzle

EDpuzzle is an interesting tool for teaching and learning while engaging student.
You have open access video which you can easily crop. It is also possible to create electronic questionnaire and supervisor the students' activities. 
Don't hesitate to use it!

https://edpuzzle.com/

https://edpuzzle.com/

Thursday, December 17, 2015

Internet Governance Forum

Internet Governance : Internet Governance Forum (IGF) established as per the resolution issued in the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) in Tunis in 2005, the Arab Internet Governance Forum (Arab IGF) was established in 2012.


    The Fourth Annual Meeting of the Arab Internet Governance Forum (AIGF-IV) was hosted by Ogero Telecom and under the joint patronage of the Lebanese Ministry of
    Telecommunications
    , on December17-18, 2015.





Thursday, December 3, 2015

Thursday, October 22, 2015

Calaméo

Calaméo - Publishing Platform for Documents and Magazines

Publishing platform for digital magazines, interactive publications and online catalogs. Convert documents to beautiful publications and share them worldwide.

 Let's publish!

Monday, May 18, 2015

Sites

To create animated videos and presentations: PowToon
To create videos for mobiles that will be seen only once! Snapchat

Wednesday, April 22, 2015

Foliospaces

FolioSpaces is a free ePortfolio platform.

"Students, teachers, career professionals and others find electronic portfolios are the best way to:
  • showcase achievement
  • provide proof of learning and experience
  • give and receive feedback (in private or public)
  • reflect on learning and critical incidents
  • help get jobs, project funding, promotion, and much more..."
To access to FolioSapces click here.

Wednesday, March 18, 2015

Engaging Every Learner Everytime

I found the following amazing presentation on Slide share "Engaging Every Learner Every time", LA Congress Workshop 2015, by Charlotte McCorquodale.


I loved watching it and it helped me restructure my teaching.

Thursday, January 29, 2015

Memrise

Memrise website 

allows us to 

learn vocabularylanguages, history, science, trivia and just about anything else

Amazing website which I have discovered in Bett Show 2015. 

To use this website click here.

Oxford Owl

Oxford Owl is an award-winning website to help support children’s learning, both at home
and at school. To use this site :Click here 

Friday, January 16, 2015

Educational technology strategic plan

Lebanon has a national educational technology strategic plan. [...]

This strategic plan establishes a vision, set of goals and objectives, and recommendations that government, donors, private- and public-sector implementers, schools, principals, and teachers must address so that every stakeholder is working from and toward the same vision, goals, and outcomes. The strategic plan covers the period of September 2012 to September 2017.

To read the strategic plan click here
Or click here. 

Thursday, December 18, 2014

SoundCloud

Searching for a social sound platform? 
Wish to share a sound file?
SoundCloud is there for you!
SoundCloud can be accessed anywhere using the official iPhone and Android apps, as well as hundreds of creation and sharing apps built on the SoundCloud platform.
To access it click here.

Wednesday, May 14, 2014

Wednesday, May 7, 2014

Tracking Online Education in the US


Grade Change - Tracking Online Education in the United States is the eleventh annual
report in this series on tracking online education in the United States. It was
originally known as the Sloan Online Survey, in recognition of our founding
sponsor, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. To download this report you have to click here.
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Tuesday, April 15, 2014

Wednesday, April 2, 2014

Wordle

Do you want to remember words easily? Wordle is the answer.
"Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. 

To use it click here.
Enjoy!

Wednesday, March 19, 2014

Educational podcasts

Do you want to get smarter?
Who doesn't!
Julie DeNeen presents on the informED blog "50 Educational Podcasts"

Check them out !


Sunday, March 9, 2014

Free cultural & educational media

Open Culture suggests a "free cultural & educational media on the web". On the menu :


Over a million images!

December 2013 the British Library announced the following:
We have released over a million images onto Flickr Commons for anyone to use, remix and repurpose. These images were taken from the pages of 17th, 18th and 19th century books digitised by Microsoft who then generously gifted the scanned images to us, allowing us to release them back into the Public Domain. The images themselves cover a startling mix of subjects: There are maps, geological diagrams, beautiful illustrations, comical satire, illuminated and decorative letters, colourful illustrations, landscapes, wall-paintings and so much more that even we are not aware of.
Let's have a look!

Friday, January 31, 2014

ICT tools

Electronic Village Online 2014 gives a list of ICT tools that could be used in education:

Tag cloud generator (wordle): http://www.wordle.net/
Photostory3: http://microsoft-photo-story.en.softonic.com/
Exelearning: http://www.exelearning.it/mindmapping generator: http://popplet.com/
Timeline generator: http://www.dipity.com/
Poster generator: http://www.glogster.com/
Geolocalisation tool: http://www.communitywalk.com/
Sticky notes generator: http://en.linoit.com/
A  voice-based elearning tool: http://www.voxopop.com/
Slide-show generator: http://slide.ly/?tid=1620

Thanks to EVO 2014 we can be more creative in our classrooms!

Wednesday, January 15, 2014

Top 100 tools for learning

Would you like to know about  the "Top 100 Tools for Learning 2013"?
The 7th Annual earning Tools Survey gives us the results for 2013 and the following website allows us to compare those relults with those of 2012.

Enjoy reading the Top 100 Tools for Learning 2013
 

Tuesday, May 7, 2013

Shamaa (arabic)

Are you searching for an online database that documents educational research carried out in Arab countries in all fields of education?
If yes the Arab Educational Information Network (Shamaa) is the answer.

Monday, April 22, 2013

Proprofs

Proprofs allows you to build and test Knowledge for businesses, educators, and students. You can create a quiz, a training, a survey... Enjoy Proprofs www.proprofs.com

Tuesday, April 16, 2013

ICTs for persons with disabilities

UNESCO publishes a global report entiteled "Opening new avenues for empowerment: ICTs to access information and knowledge for persons with disabilities". The introduction of this report could be accessed by clicking here.

To read the report click here

Enjoy reading!

New version of OpenEMIS

UNESCO launched a new version of OpenEMIS, a generic and open source Education Management information System (EMIS) software package issued without conditions or restrictions for use by countries.








To access the resource click here ttp://www.openemis.org/

Friday, March 8, 2013

Digital Culture

The Unviersity of Edimbourg suggested a course (between January 28 and March 3, 2013) on Elearning  and Digital Culture (EDC MOOC). To access it click here.

Enjoy reading!                                                 

Wednesday, February 27, 2013

iLearn Website

Do you want to explor how the iPod Touch can be used to enhance effective teaching and learning?

This website gives you the answer, click here.

Mindmap

The following websites allow you to text your mindmap.


Thursday, January 24, 2013

Learning Design for a 21st Century Curriculum




Learning Design for a 21st Century Curriculum A Massive Open Online Course 10th January to 13th March 2013 http://www.olds.ac.uk/ The bigger picture: What's the purpose

Tuesday, December 18, 2012

A new dudle

Do you need to create a poll ? Whether it's a  poll to schedule an event or a poll to vote for the coffee you like most here is the solution.

Technische Universitat Dresden has created a dudle for this purpose.

To access the dudle click here.

Monday, June 18, 2012

Special Educational Needs

Did you know that 1 in every 5 children is considered to have special educational needs (SEN)?

It is either because of greater difficulty in learning or because they have a disability (Hall, 2010)

For details about SEN you can visit the following websites:



Hall David, (2010). The ICT handbook for primary teachers, A guide for students and professionals, A David Fulton Book, Routledge, 242 pages.

Software for children with learning difficulties

HelpKidzLearn suggests a collection of software for young children and those with learning difficulties to play online.

The software is split into five sections:
  • Early Years
  • Games and Quizzes
  • Stories and Songs
  • Creative Play 
  • Find Out About (HelpKidzLearn, 2012 )
Click her to access the website.

Have  fun!

Friday, November 18, 2011

Relate, create, donnate

Would you like to share creative ideas for integrating ICT in education?
All you have to do is to post a link on the following wall:
click here
You can also use Wallwisher to build your own wall!

Friday, October 28, 2011

Padlet

Are you searching for a new tool that could be used to somehow innovate the teaching and learning process? If yes, Padlet (Known previously as Wallwisher) could be the answer.

It is so easy and you don't even need to register. To start your wall click here.

To visit my Wallwisher and add a sticky click here.

Thanks to the stuff from the head of Sean Banville we can read "Wallwisher – 105 Classroom Ideas" by clicking here.
 

Thursday, September 29, 2011

Valuable Resources for Educators

The Educational Development Unit of the Imperial College London offers valuable resources for educators about ICT in education. To access those resources click here.

Happy surfing!

Sunday, September 25, 2011

Avatars for education

Do you want to create your avatar so to use it in classrooms?

It's easy, the following avatar introduces EDU 663



To create your own avatar click here.

Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Dictionary of ICT terms

Searching for a dictionary of ICT terms? Unesco office in Bangkok provides the solution!
You can access an online handy dictionary to search for complex technological acronyms, words and phrases by clicking here.


Thursday, June 16, 2011

Media and Information Literacy (MIL) for teachers

UNESCO and many partners have developed a Media and Information Literacy Curriculum for Teachers and this is an important pioneer resource for the following two reasons:

" First, it is forward looking, drawing on present trends toward the convergence of radio, television, Internet, newspapers, books, digital archives and libraries into one platform – thereby, for the first time, presenting MIL in a holistic manner. Second, it is specifically designed with teachers in mind and for integration into the formal teacher education system, thus launching a catalytic process which should reach and build capacities of millions of young people."

To download this ebook click here.

Enjoy reading and don't hesitate to move into action because, you dear colleagues (present and future teachers), "build capacities of millions of young people" as it is said in this ebook.

Friday, June 10, 2011

Online sessions

Students majoring in sports could benefit from 3 live sessions that could help them correct and finalize their blogs and this will be a chance to experience, in a way, e-learning. You're invited to join me online as follows.
Date and time:
  • Saturday June 11, 2011 from 5 p.m till 8:00 p.m. (Beirut local time)
  • Sunday June 12, 2011 from 5 p.m till 8:00 p.m. (Beirut local time)
  • Tuesday June 14, 2011 from 5 p.m. until 8: 00 p.m (Beirut local time)
      Place:

As precised during face-to face class.
Welcome to the world of creativity and don't hesitate to share your experience!

Saturday, May 28, 2011

Two blogs ... one purpose

Retrieved from Microsft clipart
This blog's primary audience is a group of  ICT Master Students in Lebanon, and knowing that the Lebanese students are fluent in English and French, along with the Arabic, I decided not to translate information from French to English before including it in this blog. Instead I've built two blogs serving the same issue, ICT in education, one in French and one in English. 

For the primary audience, all my blog visitors, and the fellow teachers using my blog I would like to invite you to visit my French blog on ICT by clicking here.

Thursday, May 19, 2011

Students' achievements

The following blogs are created by university students in education in Lebanon interested in ICT and those blogs are tested in schools. The usage of these blogs in schools have two objectives:
  • integration of technology in education for a better teaching and learning experience,
  • testing and observing the effects and results of ICT integration in education in Lebanon.
Still newbies ? Not really, the following blogs are really exciting and they are, just like mine, trying to improve every day! Enjoy your navigation:
  1. Emmanuelle Moarbes built a french Math blog that explains math through games
  2. Mireille Tabet built a french blog about ICT at schools le numérique à l'école
  3. Kristel Yaacoub built a french blog about ICT Technophilie
  4. Ghada Al-Saylami built a bolg for teachers and educators wishing to be introducted to social media and to integrate ICT in their practices Shape the future: social medial and education

Monday, March 28, 2011

eBook Volume 2

Since some of you have enjoyed reading parts of eBook Volume 1 (as you have expressed in class) I found it important to post eBook Volume 2.

For those of you who did not rea eBook Volume 1, the following questions could be helpful to introduce you to eBook Volume 2:
  • Are you intersted in learning more about challenges facing e-learning in different countries?
  • Would you like to read a study that presents a comparison of Internet penetration rate among Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, UAE ...?
  • Interested to know about the Swedish distant education program and elearning in Norway?
All you have to do is to download eBook Volume 2 for free, by clicking on the following link: ebook volume 2

Enjoy reading!

Saturday, March 19, 2011

Resources for Teachers

The Bangkok office of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural  Organization UNESCO, created as part of the UNESCO SchoolNet Project several CD-ROMs, titled “ICT Resources for Teaching and Learning of Science, Mathematics and Language”.

To know more about this "ICT-based resources for teaching and learning of science, mathematics and language for secondary-level students, including simulations, video clips, interactive learning objects for quizzes, animation, and other kinds of multimedia learning activities" (UNESCO Bangkok website, 2011) you can click here.  

Friday, February 25, 2011

Peer 2 Peer University

Learning for everyone, by everyone, about almost anything!    
Pic retrieved from:
http://p2pu.org/
Peer 2 Peer University (P2PU) that enables learning with and from each other. To visit this open community click here 

Enjoy this new learning experience!

Thursday, February 17, 2011

Learning, innovation and ICT...

The following link leads us to a report that presents the "outcomes of the ICT cluster that the European Commission has set up under the education and training programme as part of the Lisbon objectives set for 2010" as indicated in the UNESCO website dedicated for ICT in education. 

Entiteled "Learning, innovation and ICT: Lessons learned by the ICT cluster education & training programme" this article could be downloaded by clicking here.

Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Netiquette

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Clip art retrieved from:
http://www.microsoft.com/  
Do you want to make your Internet experience pleasant? Thus, whether you are a "digital native" or not it is interesting to learn about the Netiquette. In other words, the Internet Etiquette. 

To learn about the etiquette of the Net you just have to
click here